I was reading with great interest postings in another forum of people complaining about the forthcoming activation in CS2. Now granted, I am not a graphic designer and have no use for the software, but I have purchased other software that does use activation, and I hate it. <br><br>The problem is if you reinstall your OS a couple times a year as I do, then you have to go beg to the developer when you've exceeded whatever arbitrary limit they've decided is how many installations they're going to allow. <br><br>Use a serial number, use a dongle. But for crying out loud...software activation needs to go away...permanently. <br><br>

Just curious, but why do you reinstall your OS a couple of times in a year? There's really no need for it. Clearing cache files and rebinding is just as effective, and takes a lot less time.<br><br><br>

Which does a better job: cleaning around objects in your garage; or moving everything out into the driveway, cleaning it top to bottom and putting back only what you want? The former is easier, but the latter yields a cleaner and more organized garage.<br><br>

Why rebind? Not only is it done every time you use software update but each and every application will do the first time you run it if it hasn't be prebound before. All prebining does is speed up the launch of applications the first time you run them.<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>

Hey it looked as if you needed it pointed out to you since you seem to have such a simplistic view of the OS. Make a simple and mistaken analogy? Learn to live with someone pointing out how inappropriate it is.<br><br>

Your OS is more like a modern car than a static storage shed like a garage. Do you take your car apart and put it back together? Most of us just clean it out once in a while and occasionally service it. <br><br>The argument was not whether an old system runs better than a new one, but simply whether it is better to reinstall a system that is working just fine just because you think it's better.<br><br>If your system isn't broken there is no need to reinstall it. In fact, OS X does a pretty good job of looking after itself, and as long as you keep it updated and let it do it's regular maintenace routines you should rarely if ever need to reinstall. If it's sick that's a different story.<br><br><br>

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